Sipho Ngwenya was the first democratically elected mayor of the Greater city of Durban. He was the first black mayor of the city post Apartheid era of South Africa. Durban, South Africa's third largest city, saw a number of name changes from Greater City of Durban to Durban UniCity before the current and final, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality.
Sipho Ngwenya was a member of Inkatha Freedom Party when he was elected as mayor,[1] he was the first citizen of Durban for 2 of the first 5-year democratic term. During South Africa's first democratic elections of 1994, the province of KwaZulu-Natal was won by Inkatha Freedom Party. in the year 1996, the Greater City of Durban was restructured to form the Durban UniCity where an African National Congress 1994 mayoral candidate Obed Mlaba was then appointed the mayor.
In the year 2003, a constitutional amendment by the South African parliament called Floor crossing (South Africa) was passed. Sipho Ngwenya was one of the first high profile politicians who utilized this bill and crossed from Inkatha Freedom Party to the African National Congress
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SiphoNgwenya was the first democratically elected mayor of the Greater city of Durban. He was the first black mayor of the city post Apartheid era of...
Michael "Ngrayi" Ngwenya is a South African politician from Mpumalanga. He was Regional Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in Ehlanzeni...
was subject to restructuring of local government. Its first mayor was SiphoNgwenya.[citation needed] In 1996, the city became part of the Durban UniCity...
anti-apartheid activist Chris Ngcobo, former head of Police Intelligence SiphoNgwenya, political activist Ben Ngubane, former chair of the South African Broadcasting...
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Lieutenant-General Sipho Binda MMS (13 July 1952 – 10 November 2006) was a South African military commander who served as Chief of the Joint Operations...
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Chief of Joint Operations on 1 September 1, 2007 after the death of Lt Gen Sipho Binda in car accident in 2006. In 2010 he served as acting Secretary for...
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as these leaders were getting killed on a daily basis. For example, Mr Ngwenya an ANC leader in the Pietermaritzburg area was gunned down on 8 February...
Mavimbela, Mxolisi Kaunda, Bongi Sithole, Senzo Mkhize, Lindiwe Njoko, Sipho Gcabashe, and Nigel Gumede. The 30 additional members elected in 2015 (and...
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three-dimensional animation advertisement about HIV/AIDS awareness. He also created Sipho the Lion, the official mascot of the XVI World Congress of the World Federation...
Mabena, Sipho (3 October 2019). "ANC finds Mpumalanga premier's aide not guilty of assault". The Citizen. Retrieved 5 December 2022. "Ngrayi Ngwenya found...
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